In a false flag operation, the government or another group stages an event to look like it was carried out by someone besides the real perpetrators. The
In the 19th and 20th centuries, geopolitical jockeying in China’s northeast saw the ownership of strategic railway lines – and with them regional dominance – change hands time and again.
Some 100 Japanese members of parliament prayed at the memorial that commemorates Japan's war dead including convicted war criminals. South Korea and China slammed the visit.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga spoke of the damage inflicted on Japan, but did not offer an apology for his country's militarism. His ministers courted controversy by visiting a war shrine for the war dead.